The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-08

shortly afterward met the destroyer
of his happiness in coffee house and
knocked him down. OF course the
proud Spaniard could not brook this
insult; he challenged Searight, who
gladly accepted, as he was weary of
life. They met on the seaside, about
two miles from The city OF Havana,
and Searight fell, pierced TO the heart
by his adversary's bullet. Thus un-
timely has fallen one who fought
well and nobly for his country, till
in an evikhOur he met one who Sc
dueed him from the path of honor
and duty, and Through her agency
the star of his life has set in blood.
The Spainard and the fair false one
with a demons heart haye fied to the
Isle of Pines
/. iually as thrilling bat not quite
so romantic, ,"continued the narrator,
"are the adventures of Colonel j. E.
Mclean. of the Union army, who
Was captured by the Confederates
and made his escape under circum-
stances which form not the least in
teresting chapter in the history of
the war. Colonel Mclean was a ma
tive of Tennessee, possibly from one
of the East Tennessee counties. and
married the daughter of Skinner, a
well known dentist of Brooklyn, N.
Y. Tie was from first to last an ar
dent Union man. After the capture
OF Nashville Colonel Mclean came
to this section to advocate the Union
cause and aid in every way possible
to bring his native State back to
allegiance to the old flag. He ad
dressed the people of the State Wher-
eyer it was safe to do so, and finally
raised the Second Tennessee Regi-
ment, U. S. A. of which he WAS ap-
pointed Colonel. In September, 1862,
while Bragg and Buell. were in Ke :
lucky, and Forrest was besieging
Negley in his fortifcations at Nash
vile, Colonel Mclean left Nashville
for the purpose OF visiting the North
on business which demanded his i'm
mediate attention. He was accom-
panied by Second Lieutenant of his
own regiment. They succeeded in
slipping through the rebel picket
lines, and had proceeded some fifteen
miles from Nashville, when to their
dismay. they were captured by a
fOraging party of Forests cavalry.
They were taken 10 Chattanooga,
where, after remaining few days,
they were sent to Richmond, hand.
cuffed, and placed under a heavy
guard.
AFTER remaining at Richmond for
sometime Colonel Mclean and his
companion were ia Zen back to Chat
tanooga and lodged in the old prison
quarters. Here he ascertained that
he was considered as a traitor and
would be shot. He called for court
martial, but that was denied. and he
was compelled to suffer the extreme
penalty of the law. The day before
the sentence was to have been put in
TO execution the confederate officer of
the day visited the prisoner. and to
his establishment, no less than that of
Colonel Mclean, he recognized in
the prisoner an old schoolmate and
the companion of earlier days and
happier hours" After some conver-
satiOn the Colonel appealed to his old
friend, the confederate officer, who
was q second Lieutenant, to give him
an opD0rtenity of effecting his escape.
The rebel yielded, took Colonel Nc
Lean by the hand, and said: Mac,
my dear fellow, pledge me your
honor that if captured in the attempt
you are about to make to escape my
name shall not pass your lips in con-
nection with it,
1.-THE promise was. of course, freely
given. The Lieutenant then told
him that at 6 O'clock that evening
certain window which he pointed to
would be left unfastened on the out
side, and at that hour he would see
that the guard WAS so placed that he,
the Colonel, would not he observed
if he attempted to grain his liberty.
AT the hour named. true to his PROM
i|e. his rebel friend unfastened the
window and had ordered the guard
to another beat. Colonel Mclean
then let himself down from the win
dow, ran along the shadow of the
prison wall, and made his way to the
hack Of the town. In this he found
little difficulty. for the reason that
his friend had provided him with a
rebel Uniform, and he was as ragged
as any rebel in the service. He then
made for the Tennessee river, and
padded the 'dug-out' to Stevenson,
Ala"